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i ask you governor howard dean. >> you're setting me up.crat on the program giving republicans advice. the republicans have missed the boat because they are demographically out of touch with the rest of the country. i agree with joe and rick and you. i think the winning card for republicans over the long run is economics and as long as they stick to being anti-immigration and anti-women and anti-gay there's no attraction by under 35 voters. you can't get them if you beat up on their friends. this is a generation that looks like america is going to look in 2050. >> joe scarborough, what about economic growth. that's a message republicans used to have that was a winning message. not redistribution, not the entitlement state but economic growth and jobs. whatever happened to that? >> you know, we lost the showdown at the end the year when we had the cliff, the fiscal cliff. we're now setting ourselves up and you get this right, 100%. we're not is going to be talking about economic growth because we're going to be talking about a debt ceiling d

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i'm joined tonight by howard dean, former governor of vermont and former chair of the dnc., good to have you with us tonight. >> thanks for having me on, ed. >> you bet. is this just something harry reid has to do? i mean, if you look at taxation. >> yeah. >> if you look at gun legislation, how could any of this not get filibustered based on what we saw in the 112th? >> actually, the filibuster is designed to thwart the will of the majority. but the problem is not that, because our constitution protects the minority, which is a good thing. the problem is the republicans have made it into a farce and, basically, brought the business of the entire government to a halt. so that's why it must be changed. i'm not for getting rid of it, but i am for changing it dramatically so it can't be abused anymore there are some really important things that face this country. very little was done in the last two years, and that's because the republicans believed that if they could win the election if they did nothing, they put their party ahead of their country. that must not be allowed to

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howard dean had the right description, build from the ground up. make sure grass roots is strong, fill the bench of talent, mayors, governors, state legislative races. that's where a lot of legislation gets passed that impacts, hello, say vaginal probe. >> they can say that in virginia, we know that. >> making sure that pipeline of talent, also, in terms of the technology and the data bases and the expertise, leaving the dnc, the actual infrastructure in place and available to candidates and available to the party is really critical. the best example i can give you is look what happened to the republicans. karl rove, when he was running the bush campaign, their technology was state of the art. at the rnc, they didn't have that. they didn't have what he had this time. they never built on what they have. it's not just what do we have now, but how do we make sure going forward, we are continuing to build for the future. the last thing is money, money, money. make sure the bills are paid and money in the bank. >> i want to go to you on this point, john

howard dean said on your program, it is the best deal that they are going to get. the republicans would never go along with and they are going to get tax raises on rich people. and when we go off the physical cliff congress goes back into session. republicans are blamed for the bad economy and roger is right. the three programs, social security and medicare and medicaid have been untouched. roger, the reason i give this one cheer out of three cheers, i think he is right. the democrats are salivating to demonize and this deal is the best they are going to get. >> in this one, some people say, that the real hidden agenda is to break the pledge on tax cuts and break the republican party in two. do you agree with that? >> if we break the party is done. >> and you heard what the great roger stone said. is mr. obama in it to break the party or the gop? >> as a democrat, i wish that, but the reality is he is far more liberal than they think he s he wants the deal. regardless of what howard dean wants, he clearly wants a deal and whether or not he is going to get it doesn'

i don't agree with howard dean either. we're not looking more middle class tax increases. the president has been pretty firm on that. we're looking closing coorate loopholes. some people are starting to talk about high frequent financial transaction tax for people that are trading for less than a minute in a position. melissa: none of that will get us there. >> that could raise $350 billion, if you add that with tax cuts could get 1.2 the president is talking about. there are some measures to get up close. melissa: we're adding trillions every year to our deficit. what do you think, stephen, does that get us there? >> 1.2 trillion is this year's deficit. that doesn't solve the long-term problem. the thing we haven't had from this president in my view is serious proposal for structural entitlement reform on the order of something like the ryan budget that republicans offered. took a lot of grief for. something that would change the trajectory of our debt. things we've had from this president wouldn't do that. they might take a chunk here, take a chunk there but they don't c

howard dean, katty kay all back with us.a fascinating introduction to a documentary, mobilely focused on reagan's foreign policy as it pertains to the soviet union and prevailing a 50-year cold war. >> yeah, in this case, it was all based on a comment from george schulze during our interview with schulze who said, and i'm more or less quoting that he felt that the reagan administration didn't make a lot of accomplishments in the middle east but at least things didn't go backwards. we decided to explore the notion of whether things actually went backwards. >> it's interesting that reagan as he was leaving the oval office, pat buchanan had said reagan leaving the oval office turned around and looked back right as george h.w. bush is being sworn in and went back to that day in lebanon and said that was the one day that he wished he could have had back. that was the low point of his remarkable presidency. >> well, yeah, and you're referring to the embassy or either the embassy bombing or the marine corps barracks bombing. >> the

and so, you know, i think howard dean has admitted this, many people who are democrats, who are outside of elected office have admitted this and we all know that, you know, eventually they're going to go after the middle class and it says, one of the ways they've already decided to do this is going, using the, limiting deductions and in fact, i should add that people earning, couples who earn 130,000 each, individually, fall into this category where they start to lose deductions. this isn't particularly rich, particularly in you live in new york. >> if they're joint filers, over $250,000 threshold and when it begins to phase out. dan. >> paul, the democrats believe this generation of democrats believe that over the last 40 or 50 years the united states made all of these social commitments to the population, social security, medicare, medicaid, now obamacare. >> paul: well, we have. >> and we have. and they think, the conventional wisdom shall the simpson-bowles type argument is, we can't afford this, that out 25 years from now, all of our taxes will be going to pay for these things. the

howard dean says to really fix our entitlement problems, we need even broader tax hikes than that and not the so-called rich by caroline hellman of occidental college would like to see other solutions before raising taxes on the middle class. thanks so much for joining us. howard, let me start with you. if americans want to keep their entitlements, they all need to pay more, and that's through higher taxes on all income levels. >> first of all, we have to understand the difference between plain old spending and ent times. what you just talked about is the restoration of the payroll tax to what it was when clinton was president, actually when george w. bush was president as well. that was one of the very few times where there was a direct connection between taxes and social security. what they did was borrow money to give you a tax cut, that's literally what they did because the social security fund, of course, has to be made whole. now they are taking that money back. that's reasonable. the truth is though if you want benefits you have to pay for them, and the so-called taxing the ric

. >> they had howard dean on today, too. >> howard dean. so is government hard? here we have one vote per individual. we're lucky we can get -- that's the way we do it. you have 50/50, off split. >> but we're a representative democracy. >> but how do you -- if you have diametrically opposed opinions on the way the country should go forward, when we see rise above, does that mean president obama gets to do whatever he wants? does that mean only the conservative republicans in deficit talks, they have to get their way? it's just weird. >> it's complicated. >> but when it's all said and done, didn't we get something done? >> we did, but moody's looks at it and says, this is not nearly enough. >> it's a slow process that we'll be involved with any further. >> are you positive on -- >> no, i want to add judd gregg, has it actually formed -- because he willingly went into the senate knowing how difficult it would be to do these things. >> and it was a "60 minutes" piece. a month or two ago, looked at sort of congress over the years and i think it puts reason and -- in

is howard dean more mainstream? college students increasingly identify as middle of the road politically, but they are still very liberal. it seems like young people are turning more centrist. these morons #r* embracing progressive policies. and as left evals are more mainstream, quote they see each other in a similar light. we asked a typical college student to comment. >> i thought that was a kangaroo. >> really? >> it turns out it is a monkey. rick, i want to ask because we were talking about this in the green room. you said oh are you making fun of college kids again? i said yes. you said that gets you in trouble. i said drinks later and you said sure where. i said i can't get that far. let's try next week. >> here is the thing. we are con constantly piling on college kids. we are won constantly piling on college kids and many deserve it. we have to show up on the college campus and have a message. they are very impressionable. all we have to do is be the last one there and we can get the vote. >> this is an int

so when howard dean was head of dnc he kept talking about a 50-state strategy. abandoned that. that's what you look at. govern mansion, house and senate on the state side so notion that you will have one party in control annihilating is nonsense and won't happen. >> thanks very much. it's nice to hear vocabulary coming out of washington. it's better than some of the other terms we've heard that they have used off camera talking about each other recently. still to come, huge legal news. a judge rules that, well, you can eat all of the flowers you want and we have a real problem with this. we're going to explain. from the u.s. postal service. we'll even drop off boxes if you need them. visit usps.com pay, print, and have it picked up for free. any time of year. ♪ nice sweater. thank you. ♪ thank you. see lioutdoors, or in.ight. transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. maybe even a little better. visit your eyecare professional today to ask about our newest lenses, transitions vant

perhaps the only democrat telling the truth about this is our old pal, howard dean, the uber liberal former governor of vermont. >> the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. that's a good start, but we're not going to get out of this deficit problem unless we raise taxes across the board. >> bill: now, governor dean sympathizes with the socialist philosophy and that's where the country is heading. taking from those who are productive and giving to those who are struggling. or who are working for the massive government apparatus. during this christmas season, i think we all should emulate officer deprimo, we should try to help those in need, but that help may be futile, if the government doesn't wise up and stop the incredible entitlement spending, america's economy will eventually collapse. president obama needs to invite jeffrey hillman to the white house. he needs to talk to the man with no shoes. he needs to see what is actually happening in this country. got to get real about government spending. now, the top story tonight, this is incredible, the pennsyl

perhaps the only democrat telling the truth about this is our old pal, howard dean, the uber liberalormer governor of vermont. >> the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. that's a good start, but we're not going to get out of this deficit problem unless we raise taxes across the board. >> bill: now, governor dean sympathizes with the socialist philosophy and that's where the country is heading. taking from those who are productive and giving to those who are struggling. or who are working for the massive government apparatus. during this christmas season, i think we all should emulate officer deprimo, we should try to help those in need, but that help may be futile, if the government doesn't wise up and stop the incredible entitlement spending, america's economy will eventually collapse. president obama needs to invite jeffrey hillman to the white house. he needs to talk the man with no shoes. he needs to see what is actually happening in this country. got to get real about government spending. now, the top story tonight, this is incredible, the pennsylvania

sellser is president of new heights communication and former spokesperson for vermont governor howard deantrey hard sun a form republican campaign manager and former aide to the gop house leadership. good to sigh both. thanks for coming in. trey, this news about this idea that we're going to freeze congress' pay unless they pass a budget in the senate, now coming under attack. i guess because of something called the 27th amendment, which forbids congress to make any changes to pay until after the next election. is this still the right way to go for the gop? >> yes, i think it is. first of all, it's always a pleasure to be on fox with kristy. but i have been dying in anticipation today to see if or how she might condemn this latest gop compromise. this is the second republican compromise within the last month, as we know the first one was on the fiscal cliff package on taxes. and that is not going unnoticed by many gop critics like the "washington post" today, whose editorial basically said that this latest proposal by the republicans is very reasonable and that the president and the senate

i interviewed howard dean back in 2004 when he was running for president, and at that time, he was talking about how he was a pro-gun rights democrat, a different kind of democrat. and this has changed and evolved over time for the democratic party. they have become very, very close to the national rifle association. and now i think their having some soul searching over that. >> interesting. sanjay, jim, thanks very much. >> you bet. >> let us know what you think about this law, if you knew about it, follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. >>> up next, gabby giffords' new message on guns and how she's planning to put the heat on her old colleagues. >> announcer: you never know when, but thieves can steal your identity and turn your life upside down. >> hi. >> hi. you know, i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card account with us. >> you just read my mind. >> announcer: just one little piece of information and they can open bogus accounts, stealing your credit, your money and ruining your reputation. that's why you need lifelock to relentlessly protect what matters most... [beepi

this goes back to my time at the dnc and something chairman howard dean used to talk about.art of the problem is democrats after, you know, there was the civil rights movement, democrats basically gave up on the south, and we resorted to an 18-state strategy in our presidential elections and we don't make our case in the south. so what people in a lot of these southern, and particularly in red states, end up hearing is the only the one side bashing democrats. we don't stand up and make our case. i will tell you in my own family i have nra members who are hunters, and they own guns, and they have children. they don't want armed guards in their children's schools and they certainly are fine with the idea of background checks, but i think this also goes to the nra has largely had the playing field to themselves because they've spent millions and millions of dollars over the last several years and this is part of why this effort now, and i think in the south i hope that the president makes a very strong effort in the south. i think he could have flipped georgia if he had more fi

we had evangelical latinos wanting to meet with howard dean at the dnc.'m just saying, that's a shift, right? >> it's the beginning of a bad joke. >> we saw in droves, you know, the latino community moving over to the democratic party largely because of the tone. you have even republicans in the republican party who are latino just disgusted with the tone. these guys have to be very, very careful. the other thing that these guys know is that those, you know, crazy crackers on the right, like if they start with their very hateful language, that is going to kill them in the same way that they learned at their little retreat that let's not talk about rape. >> or they learned in 2012 that self-deportation and alligator filled moats, keep in mind that herman cain was running for president when he said that. it's at least in the memo. >> look at the originality of this. if you look at some of the voices on the republican side who are for immigration reform, you have jeff flank, marco rubio. people who are conservatives, but in border areas or -- >> john mccain.

sort of mixing, to use the 2004 analogy, mixing a little bit of the bush with a little bit of the howard dean i think what we had was really smart technology and data meshed with the relationships and the notion that grassroots and organizing and ordinary people and their efforts can and should be at the center of the campaign. >> all right. how does this get used going forward? i think that was always the question in '08. and it didn't, i know there was attempts to be made, but you could argue, considering the political problems the president ran into on health care and other things, 2010 didn't so well for the president's party, is this unique -- how do you make the case that this isn't unique to obama? that somehow what you've done can be transferred and done for other candidates, other political parties, other entities, other policy fights, et cetera. >> i don't think it can be necessarily transferred and say, let's check the box and move on. i think the effort can be replicated. so what it boils down to is the head of the organization, whether there's a candidate, an executive director o

. >> i did howard dean's campaign because as governor of vermont, howard dean had signed civil unionsk. he can't be embarrassed because you are going to say if you support civil unions you can't be a credible candidate. >> stephanie: yep. let's look at the larger view. how did this compare to glover cleveland's inauguration? >> well, i want to say, chris, you have no right to talk about william howard taft. i shared a bath with him, okay? and the water was fine. >> okay. >> and, you know, we had a lovely time -- >> granted it was an olympic-sized pool -- >> he had the same displacement as the uus maine. >> stephanie: oh, jim louise ward. >> it was sanatorium -- >> stephanie: no one does a smarter eloquent fat joke than jim ward. >> he was correcting my assertion from earlier. who he said what? >> a sore winner. of all people it was frothy that talked about being a sore winner. it is amazing to me -- and there is something to note here. it is one thing that mitt romney wasn't watching. okay? who one cares. but what might have been really helpful, if the republican party was changing lo

howard dean talked about a 50-state strategy.n't begin to understand that, and keep letting republicans take over the house and the senate and the governors' mansions in states, we'll see more of this happening. this really is exposing the weakness of the democratic party statewide as opposed to winning nationally. >> thanks to both of you. have a wonderful weekend. >>> still to come, the french government has declared war. and i'm not talking about in mali. i am talking about on us. i will explain. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] something powerful is coming. ♪ see it on february 3rd. ♪ barrow island has got rare kangaroos. ♪ chevron has been developing energy here for decades. we need to protect their environment. we have a strict quarantine system to protect the integrity of the environment. forty years on, it's still a class-a nature reserve. it's our job to look after them. ...it's my job to look after it. ♪ >>> france and america. it's truly a love/hate relationship. although france would never say that, not because they believe tha

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we have howard dean over the weekend saying, no, taxing the rich isn't enough.bama knew this, he knew taxing-- because it was about tax fairness, remember. the rhetoric, flying, that was a cast warfare argument and then they're going to go for the carbon tax and loopholes and call it tax reform, but it's still a tax increase. >> the obamacare tax increases are the ones that are really going to hurt people and it's not just that, but when nancy pelosi was talking in the opening cliff there, they say they've got this trillion dollar tax cut, it doesn't hold up to scrutiny in. the poll that said that congress is less popular not just-- but than a colonoscopy. >> sean: i've had one, go ahead. >> the president obama in the rose garden said we have an entitlement spending program and we're going to have to deal with that. when jason says he's going to have to pay in the second term for the actions in the first term. he has to pay for the inaction. he could have done tax reform and entitlement reform in the first term and chose not to. >> sean: the reality, they've spe

so when howard dean was head of dnc he kept talking about a 50-state strategy.s what you look at. govern mansion, house and senate on the state side so notion that you will have one party in control annihilating is nonsense and won't happen. >> thanks very much. it's nice to hear vocabulary coming out of washington. annihilate, yeah. it's better than some of the other terms we've heard that they have used off camera talking about each other recently. >>> still to come, huge legal news. a judge rules that, well, you can eat all of the flowers you want and we have a real problem with this. we're going to explain. [ heart beating, monitor beeping ] woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't even live near the water. what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you -- including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $129 a year. for an agent, call the number that appears on your screen. >>> we have big le

my interviewed howard dean back in 2004 when he was running for president, and at that time, he was talking about how he was a pro-gun rights democrat, a different kind of democrat. and this has changed and evolved over time for the democratic party. they have become very, very close to the national rifle association. and now i think they're having some soul searching over that. >> interesting. sanjay, jim, thanks very much. >> you bet. >> let us know what you think about this law, if you knew about it, follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. >>> up next, gabby giffords' new message on guns and how she's planning to put the heat on her old colleagues. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, whic

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howard dean has said this as well because the resulting recession that might happen is worth a couple of quarters. alan greenspan said the same thing, a worth of couple of quarters of recession to get our house in fiscal order again. do you agree? >> look. i never believe that across-the-board cuts are a smart way to bring a budget down. you want to go and cut those things that really need to be cut. if you look at the sequester, the things being cut is the discretionary spending. what we really need to focus on are the entitlements because that's where we have growth far beyond the growth of gdp so i'd much rather see us focus on the entitlements, bring down the cost of health care and make social security sustainably solvent and do something about the discretionary spending. >> can you explain something to me that i don't understand, that we have democrats on repeatedly and i say to them, you know, entitlement spending, i think everybody agrees is the problem. would you means test social security? would you means test medicare? we have billionaires on who get a social security check

she was the national director for howard dean's 24 -- 2004 election. she helped to unseat an 18 year republican incumbent. stephanie also managed the campaign of senator frank and i and minnesota. she defeated norm coleman, correct? she is a graduate of c-span.o [indiscernible] university in minnesota. she has a lot to say and then we will field questions from all of you. thank you, stephanie. >> thank you all so much for coming out. good morning. again, my name is stephanie schriock, president of emily's list. as mentioned, i grew up in butte, montana, where my heart and soul still reside. special thanks to the national press club for setting the solemn. it really is an honor for me to be here today. for those of you who do not know as much about emily's list, emily's list has been around for 27 years. we are solely committed to electing pro-choice democratic women to office up and down the ballot across the country. as mentioned, we had a good election cycle in 2012. two years before that, and would save like most folks, i was ready to see the 112th

jon: let's talk about it with joe trippi, howard dean's presidential campaign manager, also a fox news the typical kind of thing, when an administration begins its second term and, you know, the loyal opposition wants to take some shots? >> look, i think there is going -- unfortunately this kind of rhetoric on both sides now. it's a hot issue. there are a lot of activists and money and support on both sides, so that when you use this kind of rhetoric, it attracts more contributors, it attracts votes for people from the propeople who support gun rights, and, again, people who -- gun control advocates will respond to the president and the rhetoric on the other side. i think we'll see more of this unfortunately. because i do think right now the american people want to see something done in the wake of these latest, you know, incidents up at sandy hook, et cetera. they want something done, they don't want this one to pass without something happening. and what is the something? is it an assault weapons ban? is it universal background checks? but i do think there is an overreaction to the pr